Improvement in hinges for boxes



. R. FRISBlE.

Match Safe.

Patented Sept. 21, 1869.

1 T ttniirfig tatrz :To all whom it mag concern:

RUSSEL FRISBIE, OF OROMVVELL, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO J AND E. STEPHENS & OOMPANXZOF SAME PLACE.

Letters Patent No. 95,103, dated September 21, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN HING-ES FOR BOXES.

The Schedule referred to in those Letters' Patent and making part of the same.

Be it known that I, RUSSEL FnIsBIu, of Cromwell, inthc county of Middlesex, and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Match and other Boxes, of which the following is afull, clear,

and exact description, reference being bad to the accompauying drawing, forming part of this specification, and in whichy Figure 1 represents an edge view of a match or other box, constructed in accordance with my improvement;

Figure 2 is a rearview of the same; and Figure 3, a top view of the lid of said box, prior to ifs cars (which form the hinge). being bent or turned own i Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

. This improvement relates to' match and other boxes,

the lids, or lids and bodies of which are formed of cast metal; and

My invention consists'in a combination, with the cast lid, of tin, or other sheet-metal ears, united with the lid in casting, and serving, when bent oi turned down, to fit on or over studs east on the body of the box, to establish the hinged connection of the lid with the body. By this construction, the lid is readily at- ,tached to the box, and cheapness. combinedwith cificiency. I v i Referring to the accompanying drawing- A is the bodyof the box, formed with hinge-studs It a caston it, and arranged to project from opposite sides or edges of saidbody in its rear.

B is the lid, made of cast-metal, and provided, on opposite edges its in the rear, with tin or other sheetmetal ears 0 O, which are formed of flat narrow strips let into the mould, so that the metal, in casting the lid, is run around the inner ends of them for the purpose ofestablishing amnion of the lid and strips, as represented in fig. 3.

Said ears have holes b 1) formed in them, to receive the studs a a of the body through them, on fitting the lid to the box, which is done by bending or turning each car down in succession over its respective stud a, as shown in figs. 1 and 2. f

This forms a cheap, simple, and efficieut mode of hinging the lidto the body of the box, free from accidental detachment of the parts, and dispensing with allseparate fitting of hinge or joint-pins, which, in the form of the studs (4 a, are cast, or otherwise made solid with the body.

In some cases, and such I regard as an equivalent construction, the sheet-metal ears 0 0' may be united with the body A of the box in casting it, and the pins v or studs 0 c be made attachments to or projections,

from the lid, which is only reversing the disposition of the ears and studs relatively to the lid and body of thQf bOX.

What is here claimed, and desired to be secured by Letterslatent, is

The sheet-metal ears 0 O, united in or by the pro-,

cess of casting, as described, with the one section or portion of the boX,j for attachment of the two sections or portions, consisting of a body, A, and lid, B, by bending said cars so as to receive, through holes I) 1) formed in them, hinge-pins or studs a it provided on the other section or portion, substantially as specified.

\ RUSSEL FRISBIE.

Witnesses:

EDWARD S. 00E, WM. E. HULBERI. 

